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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) handed Harvard University and 12 other colleges a failing grade on Thursday as part of its Campus Antisemitism Report Card. “Every campus should get an A — that’s not grade inflation, that’s the minimum that every group on every campus expects,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement posted to the group’s website. “Like all …

Three-time Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce, alongside his now retired brother Jason Kelce, hosted their “New Heights” podcast on Thursday at the University of Cincinnati’s Fifth Third Arena, the longtime home of the Bearcats’ men’s basketball team. The Kelce brothers played college football at Cincinnati. While Travis and Jason previously graduated from Cincinnati, they both missed out on their actual …

A third year mechanical engineering student with a “passion for adventure” from California Polytechnic State University tragically fell to his death while on a trip to Big Sur. Kenneth Taylor, 21, was found dead by emergency responders around 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 6 at the base of a 120-foot waterfall along California’s rugged coast, the Monterey County sheriff’s office …

Texas A&M University responded to a state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion on college campuses by giving the department head a raise before reassigning her and other employees to other departments. It sparked concerns schools are attempting to further “embed” the controversial practice at Texas universities despite the law. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law banning DEI on …

Lawyers for the Washington State University criminology Ph.D. student accused of massacring four University of Idaho undergrads in a home invasion stabbing told the judge Wednesday that they “firmly” believe their client is innocent. Bryan Kohberger, a 29-year-old from Pennsylvania, returned to the Latah County courthouse in Moscow, Idaho, for an afternoon hearing on defense efforts for a change of …

The University of Texas at Austin (UT) is taking heat for removing its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices. Per CBS Austin, Irene Mulvey, president of the American Association of University Professors, blasted UT before a scheduled speaking conference to address the school’s move to cancel DEI on campus and lay off employees. UT laid off dozens of employees who …

Students at the University of Cincinnati have banded together to create the Cincy Crime Stoppers Instagram page to alert students about incidents around campus. A description for the Cincy Crime Stoppers says the page is for “Bearcats who live off-campus and have been a victim of a crime” to “send in anonymous tips to help keep” the “community safe.” “We’re …

Social media users called out President Biden for claiming to be the first in his family to go to college in a recent speech. Biden made the claim while giving a speech in Wisconsin on Monday that touted his latest student loan handout. While on the topic of debt and college, Biden said, “I, like an awful lot of people …

FIRST ON FOX – House GOP Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., penned a scathing letter to the leaders of Harvard University, alleging that by slow-walking its investigation into the assault of a Jewish student on campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, the Ivy League school will effectively allow one of the perpetrators to graduate “despite …

Vermont’s Goddard College, a small school known for its progressive education, is closing after years of declining enrollment and financial struggles, the board of trustees announced. The decision to close at the end of the semester was heart-wrenching but unavoidable as the school, created in 1938, faces financial insolvency, the board said in a statement Tuesday. Goddard currently has 220 …